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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958
· Movie
· 108 min
A
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #231
- IMDb #482
- Google retired #1301
- Rotten Tomatoes #143
- Metacritic #463
- Letterboxd #766
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #229
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #392
- Metacritic Critics #467
- Metacritic Audience #831
- Kinopoisk #431
- AlloCiné #751
- Trakt #923
Every rating
77–97
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Trakt on 77, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 97.
See the most agreed on films →A wealthy Southern patriarch's family gathers at his plantation to celebrate his birthday. The gathering exposes the bitter tensions and lies festering within the family, primarily focusing on his alcoholic son's troubled marriage and the couple's refusal to produce an heir, all while the family vies for the dying man's fortune.
Details
- Director
- Richard Brooks
- Writers
- James Poe, Richard Brooks
- Based on
- a work by Tennessee Williams
- Studio
- Avon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Released
- 29 August 1958
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $3.0M
- Box office
- $17.6M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 16 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 18 →2 wins from 18 nominations across 8 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Motion Picture | Lawrence Weingarten | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Director | Richard Brooks | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Actor | Paul Newman | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Richard Brooks and James Poe | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1958 | Best Cinematography – Color | William Daniels | Nominee |
| Directors Guild of America Awards 1958 | Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Richard Brooks | Nominee |
| Golden Globe Awards 1958 | Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Academy Awards
6 nominations
| Best Actor | Paul Newman | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography – Color | William Daniels | Nominee |
| Best Director | Richard Brooks | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture | Lawrence Weingarten | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Richard Brooks and James Poe | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
2 nominations
| Best Director – Motion Picture | Richard Brooks | Nominee |
| Best Motion Picture – Drama | Nominee |
Directors Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures | Richard Brooks | Nominee |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination
| Best Written American Drama | Richard Brooks and James Poe | Nominee |
Laurel Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Top Female Dramatic Performance | Elizabeth Taylor | Winner |
| Top Drama | Nominee | |
| Top Male Dramatic Performance | Paul Newman | Nominee |
Online Film & Television Association Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Hall of Fame – Motion Picture | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
3 nominations
| Best Film from any Source | Nominee | |
| Best Foreign Actor | Paul Newman | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Actress | Elizabeth Taylor | Nominee |
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
1 nomination
| Best Director | Richard Brooks | Nominee |